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After the Battle of Rorke's Drift, Lts. Chard and Bromhead are left to clean up the remains of their post and deal with the trauma they've endured. But also bubbling beneath the surface are other unresolved feelings, ones which have dogged them since they first laid eyes on each other. Will they realise that the animosity they once held is born of something more than competition, and the bond forged by battle more than comradeship?
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A Seal Upon Thine Heart by richard_dalloways_roses
Fandoms: Poirot - Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV)
25 Sep 2025
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**on semi-hiatus while at school! neglected a bit but not forgotten about**
Styles Court, Essex, 1917. Two years after her marriage to a country squire, Mary Cavendish feels trapped. Her husband's attentions have wandered; she is stuck in his family home with his retiring brother, domineering mother, and a host of other strange dependents; and her life is decidedly lacking the globe trotting and adventure she's always dreamed of. But this year brings changes to Styles Court: a dashing stranger, a sinister secretary, and intrigues galore, all culminating in dastardly murder. (Enter: a famous Belgian detective...) Beneath the chaos of love affairs, police investigations, and the Great War, Mary's own desires, long denied, will not leave her alone. Is it too late to find the love she craves so badly, or have her impulsive (extramarital) decisions ruined her last chance?
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Come away, O' Human Child/ the Solemn-eyed by theseconddoctor
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV 1984)
15 Oct 2025
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Holmes gasped. Wordlessly, I followed his gaze.
At first, I thought all that I was seeing was the ethereal natural beauty of the loch. The silver bark of the birch-trees seemed to me to shimmer in the dawn light, and although beautiful, I could not understand why it had captured the attention of Holmes so. But then-
Much in the same way one's eyes become accustomed to the dark, become gradually able to make shapes from the gloom, so too did my eyes begin to comprehend. No, not comprehend- but see nevertheless. Surely it was impossible! And yet-
I could not tear my gaze away; it was magnetic, I was transfixed, and it was only through a lack of movement by my side that I knew that Holmes was similarly struck.
one of watsons untold cases. holmes and watson take the case of some missing children in a small highlands village and discover that not everything is quite as it seems
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20 Jul 2025
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Harry Potter truly didn’t think that he could have a worse birthday after the Dobby incident last year, but it seemed that fate was yet again determined to prove him wrong. After he accidentally blew up his aunt, he wasn’t able to escape from the Dursleys and things just took a turn for the worse. When he collapses after class in the first week of school, the extent of the abuse he has faced is uncovered and Harry is at a loss for what he can do next.
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07 Jun 2024
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In which Maud Beaton swindles Oscar, making off with the van Rhijn fortune; and Marian resigns herself to marrying Cousin Dashiell to save her aunts from financial ruin.
Larry has an alternate solution. It just might take him a while to get there. It might help if he could figure out why he's so angry about Marian's engagement.
Meanwhile, determined that his cousin not sacrifice her happiness for him, Oscar tracks Maud down, with a third solution in mind. Good thing he doesn't tell anyone in New York about his plans. Clear communication would make everything much too easy.
(AU after 2x06; written entirely between 2x06 and 2x08, because I am insane, apparently)
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23 Jun 2025
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Larry looks at her, and he thinks he sees the question in her eyes; he thinks he sees that he hasn’t imagined this soft, delicate something blooming in the quiet spaces between them.
(or, some missing scenes from the season two finale, in the lead-up to and aftermath of Larry and Marian's kiss.)
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07 Jun 2025